History: Olympio, a genetically-engineered superman, worked alongside
French football star Vincent Larcher to defeat a variety of super-threats.
Larcher had rescued Olympio from the clutches of his father, Prof. Spoliansky,
a mad scientist who planned to create a new breed of supermen. In their second
adventure together Larcher and Olympio exposed a conspiracy by the mysterious
"Triangle" (who might have been Spoliansky in disguise), and his eleven
assistants, to frighten the world into world peace by using faked alien
manifestations at global sports events. One of the scientists, Professor
Sato, turned out to be a traitor, who murdered the Triangle and tried to
gain control of Olympio. In their final adventure Larcher and Olympio travelled
to Mexico for the 1968 Olympic Games, where they battled the power-mad Doctor
Ketzal, who planned to rule the world using three powerful magical Aztec
artefacts.

Vincent Larcher was created by writer/artist Raymond Reding for the weekly
comic magazine "Tintin" in 1963. After an "origin" story with no fantasy
elements ("Vincent Larcher Avant-Centre", TI Nos. 770-802), the character
went into a hiatus, but returned with a vengeance in 1967 with the superheroic
"Olympio Trilogy" mentioned above. This, however, turned out to be a short-lived
experiment, and Reding returned to telling more conventional, sports-themed
stories. Two more Vincent Larcher stories followed, "Le Condottiere" (TI
Nos. 1088-1109, 1970) and "Mini-Jupes & Maxi-Foot" (TI Nos. 1142-1157,
1970), none of which contained any fantasy elements. The "Olympio Trilogy"
was collected in the graphic novel format by publisher Editions du Lombard
as volumes 1, 2 and 5 of their Vincent Larcher collection, published respectively
in 1969, 1970 and 1973.